I'm a film director looking to make some movies..and I'm starting to write them too. This blog is dedicated to my life, my inspirations, and the trials and tribulations God puts in my life as I go through it.
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Today was fun. I had the opportunity to make up a project on the day of for one of my classes, and I decided to have some fun with it. I’m always trying to tell my students that art is fun and it’s about mistakes - it’s about embracing what makes what you are creating different from what everyone else is doing. That’s a hard concept for most people to get, but especially kids. So I really didn’t expect much to come out of a class with what I thought was a simple project. But I was surprised.
My first idea for the mugs was too hard, I wanted the kids to make a gradient of the yellow and orange. It didn’t work on the sample I tried to make myself. So I went with my next idea. I had the kids throw paint at their mugs, Jackson Pollack style. Boy, did we make a mess - but I have never had the kids get so into what they’re making and have so much fun! They even helped me clean up!
My apologies to the school custodian, but I would not do this class differently. The kids loved it and many of them, including the ones that have taken my class repeatedly, told me it was the most fun they’d ever had.
I hope they’ll remember today when they think about art in the future and remember it can be fun.
She’s painting with a basketball. This is kind of insane, but brilliant.
SIGN PAINTERS
A documentary about the lost art of sign painting.
This is what I so wanted to be when I grew up, at one point. I’d’a prolly been good at it….
I had a ballet teacher that did this. It fascinated me. I wish I could letter the way these people letter.
Megan Welch
“Zaksuka Bleu”
Acrylic on canvas
Also uploaded this one to hitrecord just for fun.
Starting March 1 (tomorrow!!!) please start watching here. Myself and many other artists contributed some fun art that’s going to be popping up all through the month of March.
David Hockney on his famous photo collage Pearblossom Hwy, created in 1986.
To see more photo collages by Hockney, check out his 1983 L.A. Louver exhibition titled New Work with a Camera.
My gosh, this is complicated. But it’s also insanely beautiful. I had no idea how it was made.
